A Global Call to Action for Mutual Support for All

"Itdeclares that if urban neighborhoods, mid-size and small communities, and rural areas worldwide organize local resilience networks that provide Mutual Support For All, the mental health, psychosocial, and many physical health issues generated by the C-E-B crisis can be prevented, when symptoms appear they can be healed, and people can find positive new sources of meaning, purpose, and healthy hope in life, and thrive."

"To achieve this the Global Call to Action for Mutual Support for All calls on civic, private sector, and government leaders worldwide to form resilience networks in all urban neighborhoods, mid-size and small communities, and rural areas globally that actively engage their residents in using a public health approach to build population-level mental wellness and transformational resilience for the impacts of the climate-ecosystem-biodiversity (C-E-B) crisis."

Global surface temperatures have risen by 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and are projected to reach 2C in a few years. Hotter temperatures escalate extreme weather disasters worldwide and cripple ecological, social, and economic systems. Population-level mental health, psychosocial, and many physical health issues arise from these climate-ecosystem-biodiversity impacts. Organizing local resilience networks across urban, mid-size, small, and rural communities can provide Mutual Support For All. These networks should engage residents with a public health approach to build mental wellness and transformational resilience, prevent and heal symptoms, and restore meaning, purpose, and healthy hope.

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